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Originally Posted by multiweb
There is no doubt that some coastal towns in low lying areas will have to be relocated to higher grounds. As an example in Sydney why there are so many new developments going up in Emu plain is just beyond belief.  The old argument that population is growing and they need the room doesn't hold any water. No pun intended. |
While I agree I can also see the twisting of numbers to lay blame elsewhere unfortunately. Already our politicians have been laying the groundwork for blaming the current developing nations (ie former third world who are now starting to industrialise themselves because all us rich nations refused to help them build to the level they could have Levi's jeans, McDonalds and Iphones which we continue to advertise to the world that everyone needs to have a better life. Like our Humanitarian efforts are really about isolation and detention.Soon our detention centers (islands) will be underwater anyway.
At least China working with Solomons is a good thing, base or not China has the technology and willpower to create new artificial land which will certainly allow Solomon Islanders to continue to live on for longer on their own land. While our politicians do nothing to actually help except form committees and antagonise on behalf of America.
It also wont take too much for Australia to become a string of islands, everyone seems to behave like we have a continue wall of mountain ranges and a high continent to provide a physical barrier from rising ocean waters. We’ll be flooded out from the inside and it’ll happen sooner than people think and people are dumb to believe politicians need to do something. Its their job to do nothing, we see every time theres time of crisis that australians help each other, while politicians umm and ahh and spend tax dollars on fact finding trip yet not a single one every fills a sandbag to help build a levy and certainly never get in a rubber dingy to find trapped survivors or help remove bodies. The just do nothing but thats the system of government we have and are stuck with until its too late for australians to do something about it.
In the next few years we’ll have major record bushfires happening at once in many locations, likewise we’ll see more flooding happening in multiple locations at once. Its not like these things never happened in the past but what also never happened was automatic processes to start the physical aid without politicians having to take advice or weigh options etc. Eg When x amount of rainfall happens in a geographic (not political) region historically see flooding to this degree her and her and here, so when the weather stations record the rate has hit that threshold an analyst surveyor from the army engineers is sent out to monitor and access in real time the downstream effects and start to call in people and equipment to shore up areas, create high ground tent living, hospital etc, and boats to reach distant communities and to co-ordinate a real time logistic team on their own, no politicians needed and resources already assigned and pre approved in whatever eventuality. Easy to set up and should have been done decades ago, but no instead we want our politician to take days yo decide what to do each time and its always the same, too little and way too late.